ال ينمو إستعمال ال [بيومتريكس] أن يعيّن فردات "غير آمن وبموجب إنتباه فوريّة," وفقا ل هو نظامات شركة.
[فوجيتسو] سيمنس استعملت يقال [بيومتريكس] بدرجة متزايدة يكون في العمل عالم أن يدقّق ما إذا فردات حقّا الذي هم يقولون. ب 2013, يتنبّأ [فوجيتسو] سيمنس قياسيّ حيويّ هوية تكنولوجيا سيكون هكذا واسع انتشار في […]

موسكو - روسيا يستلم يكتب الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة سيليّن اقتراحات في يوم الأربعاء أيّ واشنطن يأمل موسكو اهتمامات على خطط أن ينشر عناصر من درع صاروخيّ في أوروبا, وكالة أنباء روسيّة يفاد.
الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates promised Russian counterparts at talks in Moscow on Tuesday to offer a set […]

MPs told that calls from senior police officers will not be answered.
The government has no plans to extend the DNA database despite the wishes of senior figures within the police force to do so, home office minister Tony McNulty told MPs today.
Speaking at a Home Affairs Committee inquiry, Mcnulty said he thought the balance […]

Counter-terrorism experts call it a ‘force multiplier’: an attack combining slaughter and electronic chaos. Now Britain’s security services want total access to commuters’ travel records to help them meet the threat
Millions of commuters could have their private movements around cities secretly monitored under new counter-terrorism powers being sought by the security services.
Records of journeys made […]

In Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, Siobhan Gorman pulled together the disparate threads of reporting on what’s known of the NSA’s secret domestic spy program, and combined them with some of her own reporting to confirm, once again, that the NSA’s program is another incarnation of the Pentagon’s erstwhile Total Information Awareness program. Gorman also describes […]

A bill that would expand the criminal DNA database to include suspects of every violent crime appeared likely to pass a key House committee late Friday, despite a request from black lawmakers to postpone discussion.Members of the House judiciary committee debated potential changes to Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposal to collect DNA from all suspects in […]

Applications for CCTV operators go through the roof
A UK company is marketing the first CCTV camera that can see objects under a person’s clothing.
The ThruVision T5000 can spot items underneath clothing at a range of up to 25 metres.
All materials emit different terahertz waves, allowing the cameras to differentiate between sugar and cocaine, for example.
Clive […]

Campaigners condemn laws that have put 1.5 million juvenilies on a database
Jamie Doward
Nearly 1.5 million 10 to 18-year-olds will have been entered on the national DNA database by this time next year, sparking claims that Britain’s youths are being criminalised and disproportionately ‘targeted’.
Campaign group Action on Rights for Children (Arch) says ‘no other country in […]

Sir Ian Blair says scheme would have obvious benefits for crimefighting
Computing
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has called for the UK’s controversial DNA database to be extended across Europe to help bridge the intelligence gap caused by the removal of many of the EU’s internal borders.
He made the proposal at the first pan-European Serious Organised […]

Charles Arthur

Only people who have been arrested are placed on the DNA database. Photograph: Press Association
Can you support Britain’s current DNA database yet oppose plans for biometric ID cards? That’s the question I’ve been wrestling with this week. The answer, as you’ll see, isn’t trivial.
The past week has seen three men convicted of murder, and […]

Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Tether has secured a House of Commons debate on the impact of the proposed National DNA Database, which takes place today. It has been welcomed by human rights, mental health and church groups.
The campaigning organisation Black Mental Health UK (BMH UK) says that it is especially concerned about the likely discriminatory […]

1. What is Scientology?
To understand Anonymous – what it is and why it exists – it is necessary to understand the Church of Scientology and why it has attracted the attention it has over the last half-century or so.
Scientology was created by L Ron Hubbard, an American science fiction writer. In 1950 he published the […]

Researchers at Lancaster University are developing a new generation of ‘smart tags’ to “help keep workers safe on construction sites.”

NEMO technology in development
The research project is creating tiny Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tags, with sensors and memory, which can be embedded in everyday objects - such as tools - and communicate via a network using […]

by Cory Doctorow
This German exibition is showcasing bright infrared LED devices that overwhelm the CCDs in security cameras, allowing you to move through modern society in relative privacy. I used this as a gimmick in my story I, Robot — now I want to own one!
The URA / FILOART developed device promises to the […]

DNA strings could become the template for nanotubes and nanowires by 2028
By Sharon Gaudin
Looking for a way to continually shrink computer chips while still squeezing more transistors onto them, IBM scientists are working on a whole new way to build processors — using DNA.
For the past year and a half, researchers at IBM have been […]